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In this article, we propose high-order finite-difference entropy stable schemes for the two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations. This is achieved by exploiting the structure of the equations, which consists of three independent flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar

Simulations of the discrete Boltzmann Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation are an important tool for understanding fluid dynamics in non-continuum regimes. Here, we introduce a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG-FEM) for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Karthik Ganeshan , David M. Williams

The Swift-Hohenberg equation as a central nonlinear model in modern physics has a gradient flow structure. Here we introduce fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for a class of fourth order gradient flow problems, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Hailiang Liu , Peimeng Yin

Energy stable flux reconstruction (ESFR) is a high-order numerical method used for solving partial differential equations in computational fluid dynamics. This method is designed to preserve the energy stability of the underlying partial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-08 Erwan Lambert , Siva Nadarajah

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

This paper is concerned with mixed finite element method (FEM) for solving the two-dimensional, nonlinear fourth-order active fluid equations. By introducing an auxiliary variable $w=-\Delta u$, the original fourth problem is transformed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nan Zheng , Xu Guo , Wenlong Pei , Wenju Zhao

We propose a novel algorithm for the approximation of surface-quasi geostrophic (SQG) flows modeled by a nonlinear partial differential equation coupling transport and fractional diffusion phenomena. The time discretization consists of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Andrea Bonito , Murtazo Nazarov

A new time discretization scheme for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow governed by a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is presented. The scheme is consistent in the sense that it allows for a discrete in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

Based on a recent novel formulation of parametric anisotropic curve shortening flow, we analyse a fully discrete numerical method of this geometric evolution equation. The method uses piecewise linear finite elements in space and a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

We consider fully discrete numerical approximations for axisymmetric Willmore flow that are unconditionally stable and work reliably without remeshing. We restrict our attention to surfaces without boundary, but allow for spontaneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

In this paper, we propose a multiphysics finite element method for a nonlinear poroelasticity model. To better describe the processes of deformation and diffusion, we firstly reformulate the nonlinear fluid-solid coupling problem into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Zhihao Ge , Wenlong He

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We propose a new parametric finite element method, referred to as the BGN-MDR method, for simulating both mean curvature flow and surface diffusion for closed hypersurfaces, as well as open hypersurfaces with moving contact lines in three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Guangwei Gao , Harald Garcke , Buyang Li , Rong Tang

Subsurface flows are commonly modeled by advection-diffusion equations. Insufficient measurements or uncertain material procurement may be accounted for by random coefficients. To represent, for example, transitions in heterogeneous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Huangxin Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We analyze the flux conservation property of the finite element method. It is shown that the finite element solution does approximate the flux locally in the optimal order, i.e., the same order as that of the nodal interpolation operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Shangyou Zhang , Zhimin Zhang , Qingsong Zou